AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 User Guide UG-386 One Technology Way • P.O. Box 9106 • Norwood, MA 02062-9106, U.S.A. • Tel: 781.329.4700 • Fax: 781.461.3113 • www.analog.com Evaluating the AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 Analog-to-Digital Converters PLEASE SEE THE LAST PAGE FOR AN IMPORTANT WARNING AND LEGAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Rev. A | Page 1 of 26 FEATURES Full featured evaluation board for the AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 SPI interface for setup and control External or AD9523 clocking option Balun/transformer or amplifier input drive option LDO regulator power supply VisualAnalog and SPI controller software interfaces EQUIPMENT NEEDED Analog signal source and antialiasing filter Sample clock source (if not using the on-board oscillator) 2 switching power supplies (6.0 V, 2.5 A), CUI EPS060250UH-PHP-SZ, provided PC running Windows® 98 (2nd ed.), Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows XP USB 2.0 port recommended (USB 1.1 compatible) AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672 evaluation board HSC-ADC-EVALCZ FPGA-based data capture kit SOFTWARE NEEDED VisualAnalog SPI controller DOCUMENTS NEEDED AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672 data sheet HSC-ADC-EVALCZ data sheet AN-905 Application Note, VisualAnalog Converter Evaluation Tool Version 1.0 User Manual AN-878 Application Note, High Speed ADC SPI Control Software AN-877 Application Note, Interfacing to High Speed ADCs via SPI AN-835 Application Note, Understanding ADC Testing and Evaluation GENERAL DESCRIPTION This user guide describes the AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 evaluation board, which provides all of the support circuitry required to operate the AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 in their various modes and configurations. The application software used to interface with the devices is also described. The AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 data sheets provide additional information and should be consulted when using the evaluation board. All documents and software tools are available at http://www.analog.com/fifo. For additional information or questions, send an email to [email protected]. TYPICAL MEASUREMENT SETUP 10593-001 Figure 1. AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672 Evaluation Board (on Left) and HSC-ADC-EVALCZ Data Capture Board (on Right)
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AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 User GuideUG-386
One Technology Way • P.O. Box 9106 • Norwood, MA 02062-9106, U.S.A. • Tel: 781.329.4700 • Fax: 781.461.3113 • www.analog.com
Evaluating the AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 Analog-to-Digital Converters
PLEASE SEE THE LAST PAGE FOR AN IMPORTANT WARNING AND LEGAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Rev. A | Page 1 of 26
FEATURES Full featured evaluation board for the
AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 SPI interface for setup and control External or AD9523 clocking option Balun/transformer or amplifier input drive option LDO regulator power supply VisualAnalog and SPI controller software interfaces
EQUIPMENT NEEDED Analog signal source and antialiasing filter Sample clock source (if not using the on-board oscillator)
2 switching power supplies (6.0 V, 2.5 A), CUI EPS060250UH-PHP-SZ, provided
PC running Windows® 98 (2nd ed.), Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows XP
USB 2.0 port recommended (USB 1.1 compatible) AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672 evaluation board HSC-ADC-EVALCZ FPGA-based data capture kit
SOFTWARE NEEDED VisualAnalog SPI controller
DOCUMENTS NEEDED AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672 data sheet HSC-ADC-EVALCZ data sheet AN-905 Application Note, VisualAnalog Converter Evaluation
Tool Version 1.0 User Manual AN-878 Application Note, High Speed ADC SPI Control Software AN-877 Application Note, Interfacing to High Speed ADCs via SPI AN-835 Application Note, Understanding ADC Testing and
Evaluation
GENERAL DESCRIPTION This user guide describes the AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 evaluation board, which provides all of the support circuitry required to operate the AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 in their various modes and configurations. The application software used to interface with the devices is also described.
The AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 data sheets provide additional information and should be consulted when using the evaluation board. All documents and software tools are available at http://www.analog.com/fifo. For additional information or questions, send an email to [email protected].
TYPICAL MEASUREMENT SETUP 10
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Figure 1. AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672 Evaluation Board (on Left) and HSC-ADC-EVALCZ Data Capture Board (on Right)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Features .............................................................................................. 1 Equipment Needed ........................................................................... 1 Software Needed ............................................................................... 1 Documents Needed .......................................................................... 1 General Description ......................................................................... 1 Typical Measurement Setup ............................................................ 1 Revision History ............................................................................... 2 Evaluation Board Hardware ............................................................ 3
Power Supplies .............................................................................. 3 Input Signals .................................................................................. 3
Output Signals ...............................................................................4 Default Operation and Jumper Selection Settings ....................4
Evaluation Board Software Quick Start Procedures .....................6 Configuring the Board .................................................................6 Using the Software for Testing .....................................................6
Evaluation Board Schematics and Artwork ................................ 13 Ordering Information .................................................................... 22
Bill of Materials ........................................................................... 22 Related Links ................................................................................... 24
REVISION HISTORY 11/14—Rev. 0 to Rev. A
Changes to Setting Up the SPI Controller Software Section and Deleted Figure 10 .............................................................................. 8
4/12—Revision 0: Initial Version
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EVALUATION BOARD HARDWARE The AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 evaluation board provides all of the support circuitry required to operate these parts in their various modes and configurations. Figure 2 shows the typical bench characterization setup used to evaluate the ac performance of the AD9642, AD9634, or AD6672. It is critical that the signal sources used for the analog input and the clock have very low phase noise (<1 ps rms jitter) to realize the opti-mum performance of the signal chain. Proper filtering of the analog input signal to remove harmonics and lower the inte-grated or broadband noise at the input is necessary to achieve the specified noise performance.
See the Evaluation Board Software Quick Start Procedures section to get started, and see Figure 18 to Figure 29 for the complete schematics and layout diagrams. These diagrams demonstrate the routing and grounding techniques that should be applied at the system level when designing application boards using these converters.
POWER SUPPLIES This evaluation board comes with a wall-mountable switching power supply that provides a 6 V, 2.5 A maximum output. Connect the supply to a rated 100 V ac to 240 V ac wall outlet at 47 Hz to 63 Hz. The output from the supply is provided through a 2.1 mm inner diameter jack that connects to the printed circuit board (PCB) at P201. The 6 V supply is fused and conditioned on the PCB before connecting to the low dropout linear regulators (default configuration) that supply the proper bias to each of the various sections on the board.
The evaluation board can be powered in a nondefault condition using external bench power supplies. To do this, remove the jumpers on the P104, P107, P108, and P105 header pins to disconnect the outputs from the on-board LDOs. This enables the user to bias each section of the board individually. Use P202 and P203 to connect a different supply for each section. A 1.8 V supply is needed with a 1 A current capability for DUT_AVDD and DRVDD; however, it is recommended that separate supplies be used for both analog and digital domains. An additional supply is also required to supply 1.8 V for digital support circuitry on the board, DVDD. This should also have a 1 A current capability and can be combined with DRVDD with little or no degradation in performance. To operate the evaluation board using the SPI and alternate clock options, a separate 3.3 V analog supply is needed in addition to the other supplies. This 3.3 V supply, or 3P3V_ANALOG, should have a 1 A current capability. This 3.3 V supply is also used to support the optional input path amplifier (ADL5201) on Channel A and Channel B.
INPUT SIGNALS When connecting the clock and analog source, use clean signal generators with low phase noise, such as the Rohde & Schwarz SMA or HP 8644B signal generators or an equivalent. Use a 1 m shielded, RG-58, 50 Ω coaxial cable for connecting to the evalua-tion board. Enter the desired frequency and amplitude (see the Specifications section in the data sheet of the respective part).
UG-386 AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 User Guide When connecting the analog input source, use of a multipole, narrow-band, band-pass filter with 50 Ω terminations is recom-mended. Analog Devices, Inc., uses TTE and K&L Microwave, Inc., band-pass filters. The filters should be connected directly to the evaluation board.
If an external clock source is used, it should also be supplied with a clean signal generator as previously specified. Typically, most Analog Devices evaluation boards can accept ~2.8 V p-p or 13 dBm sine wave input for the clock.
OUTPUT SIGNALS The default setup uses the Analog Devices high speed converter evaluation platform (HSC-ADC-EVALCZ) for data capture. The output signals from Channel A and Channel B for the AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 are routed through P601 and P602, respectively, to the FPGA on the data capture board.
DEFAULT OPERATION AND JUMPER SELECTION SETTINGS This section explains the default and optional settings or modes allowed on the AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 evaluation board.
Power Circuitry
Connect the switching power supply that is supplied in the evaluation kit between a rated 100 V ac to 240 V ac wall outlet at 47 Hz to 63 Hz and P201.
Analog Input
The A and B channel inputs on the evaluation board are set up for a double balun-coupled analog input with a 50 Ω impedance. This input network is optimized to support a wide frequency band. See the AD9642, AD9634, and AD6672 data sheets for additional information on the recommended networks for different input frequency ranges. The nominal input drive level is 10 dBm to achieve 2 V p-p full scale into 50 Ω. At higher input frequencies, slightly higher input drive levels are required due to losses in the front-end network.
Optionally, Channel A and Channel B inputs on the board can be configured to use the ADL5201 digitally controlled, variable gain wide bandwidth amplifier. The ADL5201 component is included on the evaluation board at U401. However, the path into
and out of the ADL5201 can be configured in many different ways depending on the application; therefore, the parts in the input and output path are left unpopulated. See the ADL5201 data sheet for additional information on this part and for configuring the inputs and outputs. The ADL5201, by default, is held in power-down mode but can be enabled by adding 1 kΩ resistors at R427 and R428 to enable Channel A and Channel B, respectively.
Clock Circuitry
The default clock input circuit that is populated on the AD9642/ AD9634/AD6672 evaluation board uses a simple transformer-coupled circuit with a high bandwidth 1:1 impedance ratio transformer (T503) that adds a very low amount of jitter to the clock path. The clock input is 50 Ω terminated and ac-coupled to handle single-ended sine wave types of inputs. The trans-former converts the single-ended input to a differential signal that is clipped by CR503 before entering the ADC clock inputs.
The board is set by default to use an external clock generator. An external clock source capable of driving a 50 Ω terminated input should be connected to J506.
A differential LVPECL clock driver output can also be used to clock the ADC input using the AD9523 (U501). To place the AD9523 into the clock path, populate R541 and R542 with 0 Ω resistors and remove C532 and C533 to disconnect the default clock path inputs. In addition, populate R533 and R534 with 0 Ω resistors, remove R522 and R523 to disconnect the default clock path outputs, and insert AD9523 LVPECL Output 2. The AD9523 must be configured through the SPI controller software to set up the PLL and other operation modes. Consult the AD9523 data sheet for more information about these and other options.
PDWN
To enable the power-down feature, Bits[1:0] of Register 0x08 must be written for the desired power-down mode.
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To disable the digital output pins and place them in a high imped-ance state, Bit 4 of Register 0x14 must be written.
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Figure 3. Default Analog Input Configuration of the AD9642/AD9634/AD6672
AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 User Guide UG-386 Switching Power Supply
Optionally, the ADC on the board can be configured to use the ADP2114 dual switching power supply to provide power to the DRVDD and AVDD rails of the ADC. To configure the board to operate from the ADP2114, the following changes must be incorporated (see the Evaluation Board Schematics and Artwork and the Bill of Materials sections for specific recommendations for part values):
1. Install R204 and R221 to enable the ADP2114. 2. Install R216 and R218.
3. Install L201 and L202. 4. Remove JP201 and JP203. 5. Remove jumpers from across Pin 1 and Pin 2 on P107 and
P108, respectively. 6. Place jumpers across Pin 1 and Pin 2 of P106 and P109,
respectively.
Making these changes enables the switching converter to power the ADC. Using the switching converter as the ADC power source is more efficient than using the default LDOs.
EVALUATION BOARD SOFTWARE QUICK START PROCEDURES This section provides quick start procedures for using the AD9642/ AD9634/AD6672 evaluation board. Both the default and optional settings are described.
CONFIGURING THE BOARD Before using the software for testing, configure the evaluation board as follows:
1. Connect the evaluation board to the data capture board, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.
2. Connect one 6 V, 2.5 A switching power supply (such as the CUI, Inc., EPS060250UH-PHP-SZ that is supplied) to the AD9642/AD9634/AD6672 board.
3. Connect another 6 V, 2.5 A switching power supply (such as the CUI EPS060250UH-PHP-SZ that is supplied) to the HSC-ADC-EVALCZ board.
4. Connect the HSC-ADC-EVALCZ board (J6) to the PC with a USB cable.
5. On the ADC evaluation board, confirm that jumpers are installed on the P105, P108, P104, P107, and P110 headers.
6. Connect a low jitter sample clock to Connector J506. 7. Use a clean signal generator with low phase noise to provide
an input signal to the desired channel(s) at Connector J301 (Channel A) and/or Connector J303 (Channel B). Use a 1 m, shielded, RG-58, 50 Ω coaxial cable to connect the signal generator. For best results, use a narrow-band band-pass filter with 50 Ω terminations and an appropriate center frequency. (Analog Devices uses TTE, Allen Avionics, and K&L band-pass filters.)
USING THE SOFTWARE FOR TESTING Setting Up the ADC Data Capture
After configuring the board, set up the ADC data capture using the following steps:
1. Open VisualAnalog® on the connected PC. The appro-priate part type should be listed in the status bar of the VisualAnalog – New Canvas window. Select the template that corresponds to the type of testing to be performed (see Figure 4 where the AD9642 is shown as an example). The AD9642 is given as an example in this user guide. Similar settings are used for the AD9634. For the AD6672, the differences are noted where necessary in the steps that follow.
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Figure 4. VisualAnalog, New Canvas Window
2. After the template is selected, a message appears asking if the default configuration can be used to program the FPGA (see Figure 5). Click Yes, and the window closes.
3. To change features to settings other than the default settings, click the Expand Display button, located on the bottom right corner of the window (see Figure 6) to see what is shown in Figure 7. Detailed instructions for changing the features and capture settings can be found in the AN-905 Application Note, VisualAnalog™ Converter Evaluation Tool Version 1.0 User Manual. After the changes are made to the capture settings, click the Collapse Display button.
After the ADC data capture board setup is complete, set up the SPI controller software using the following procedure:
1. Open the SPI controller software by going to the Start menu or by double-clicking the SPIController software desktop icon. If prompted for a configuration file, select the appropriate one. If not, check the title bar of the window to determine which configuration is loaded. If necessary, choose Cfg Open from the File menu and select the appropriate file based on your part type. Note that the CHIP ID(1) section should be filled to indicate whether the correct SPI controller configuration file is loaded (see Figure 8).
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Figure 8. SPI Controller, CHIP ID(1) Section
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2. Click the New DUT button in the SPIController window (see Figure 9).
NEW DUT BUTTON
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Figure 9. SPI Controller, New DUT Button
3. In the ADCBase 0 tab of the SPIController window, find the CLK DIV(B) section (see Figure 10). If using the clock divider, use the drop-down box to select the correct clock divide ratio, if necessary. See the appropriate part data sheet; the AN-878 Application Note, High Speed ADC SPI Control Software; and the AN-877 Application Note, Interfacing to High Speed ADCs via SPI, for additional information. Note that other settings can be changed on the ADCBase 0 tab (see Figure 10). See the appropriate part data sheet; the AN-878 Application Note, High Speed ADC SPI Control Software; and the AN-877 Application Note, Interfacing to High Speed ADCs via SPI, for additional information on the available settings.
Figure 11. SPI Controller, Example ADCBase 0 Tab—NSR Settings for the AD6672
4. If using the noise shaping requantizer (NSR) feature of the AD6672, the settings in the ADCBase 0 tab must be changed (see Figure 11). The NSR Enable checkbox must be selected under the NOISE SHAPED REQUANTIZER 1(3C) section. This enables the circuitry in the AD6672. To select the bandwidth mode, use the NSR Mode drop-down box in the NOISE SHAPED REQUANTIZER 1(3C) section. Upon selecting the bandwidth mode, select the desired tuning word in the NSR Tuning drop-down menu under the NOISE SHAPED REQUANTIZER TUNING(3E) section.
5. Click the Run button in the VisualAnalog toolbar (see Figure 12).
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Figure 12. Run Button (Encircled in Red) in VisualAnalog Toolbar, Collapsed Display
The next step is to adjust the amplitude of the input signal for each channel as follows:
1. Adjust the amplitude of the input signal so that the fundamen-tal is at the desired level. (Examine the Fund Power reading in the left panel of the VisualAnalog Graph window.) See Figure 14.
2. Repeat this procedure for Channel B if desired. 3. Click the Save disk icon within the Graph window to save
the performance plot data as a .csv formatted file. See Figure 13 for an example.
5. Configure the settings in the FFT analysis to match the settings selected for the NSR in the SPI controller (see Figure 16).
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Figure 16. VisualAnalog, FFT Analysis Settings for AD6672
6. The result should show an FFT plot that looks similar to Figure 17.
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Figure 17. Graph Window of VisualAnalog, NSR Enabled, AD6672
7. The amplitude shows approximately 0.6 dB lower than when the NSR is disabled. The NSR circuitry introduces this loss. An amplitude of −1.6 dBFS with NSR enabled is analogous to an amplitude of −1.0 dBFS with NSR disabled.
8. Repeat Step 3 to save the graph in a .csv file format.
Troubleshooting Tips
If the FFT plot appears abnormal, do the following:
If you see a normal noise floor when you disconnect the signal generator from the analog input, be sure that you are not overdriving the ADC. Reduce the input level if necessary.
In VisualAnalog, click the Settings button in the Input Formatter block (see Figure 7). Check that Number Format in the settings of the Input Formatter block is set to the correct encoding (offset binary by default). Repeat for the other channel.
If the FFT appears normal but the performance is poor, check the following:
Make sure that an appropriate filter is used on the analog input.
Make sure that the signal generators for the clock and the analog input are clean (low phase noise).
Change the analog input frequency slightly if noncoherent sampling is being used.
Make sure that the SPI configuration file matches the product being evaluated.
If the FFT window remains blank after Run (see Figure 12) is clicked, do the following:
Make sure that the evaluation board is securely connected to the HSC-ADC-EVALCZ board.
Make sure that the FPGA has been programmed by verifying that the DONE LED is illuminated on the HSC-ADC-EVALCZ board. If this LED is not illuminated, make sure that the U4 switch on the board is in the correct position for USB CONFIG.
Make sure that the correct FPGA program was installed by clicking the Settings button in the ADC Data Capture block in VisualAnalog. Then select the FPGA tab and verify that the proper FPGA bin file is selected for the part.
If VisualAnalog indicates that the data capture timed out, do the following:
Make sure that all power and USB connections are secure. Probe the DCO signal at the ADC on the evaluation board
and confirm that a clock signal is present at the ADC sampling rate.
ESD Caution ESD (electrostatic discharge) sensitive device. Charged devices and circuit boards can discharge without detection. Although this product features patented or proprietary protection circuitry, damage may occur on devices subjected to high energy ESD. Therefore, proper ESD precautions should be taken to avoid performance degradation or loss of functionality.
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